Here Be Dragons, Book Images Of The Internet Archive On Flickr
Susceptible as I am to the marriage of history with technology, being the original antiquarian-technophile, my love affair with the Internet ArchiveContinue Reading
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Celtic Cosmology, Perspectives from Ireland and Scotland
Over the last two decades relatively few studies have been published analysing the cosmological traditions of the Celtic-speaking peoples, atContinue Reading
Chronology of Irish History 1919–1923
Over the last year I’ve been contacted by a few people enquiring if I knew anything about the disappearance of the web-basedContinue Reading
Second Spoken Languages Of Contemporary Europe
Interesting charts from the folk at (the anglocentric) Move Hub: “This map shows the second most common first language inContinue Reading
Ireland’s British Rebels
Once again it takes an Irish journalist working in a foreign newspaper to write what the Irish press would neverContinue Reading
Negationists Ahoy!
So that tired old spy/informer/traitor of yore, Seán O’Callaghan, is back peddling his same tired old “analyses” of political andContinue Reading
Let Us Do Evil That Good May Come
Sometimes I wonder if there is an entire generation of Irish historians and writers who are so cocooned inside anContinue Reading
Óglaigh na hÉireann – ÓnaÉ
One can understand foreign news media misinterpreting the Irish language but our domestic equivalents? The title Óglaigh na hÉireann seemsContinue Reading
Ogham – Ireland’s Indigenous Alphabet
Here’s a fascinating article on the Product Design and Development website examining an archaeological project in Ireland to preserve inContinue Reading
Seanchas – Irish, Scottish And Manx Mythology And Folklore
For those of you with an interest in early, middle and early modern indigenous Irish literature and post-Medieval folklore (IrishContinue Reading
People Not Pots?
For all you hardcore historian-types out there an interesting article from Discover Magazine on the “pots-not-people” paradigm that dominated archaeological studies from the 1970s onward but nowContinue Reading
Dáithí Ó hÓgáin – Ar Dheis Dé Go Raibh A Anam
A brief post to mark the passing of Professor Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, a man who brought academic rigour to the popular promotion of Early Irish Literature, MythologyContinue Reading
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